Polk Man Accused of Videotaping Teen Girls In His Bathroom

A man accused of secretly videotaping teenage girls with a tiny camera in the bathroom of his home has been arrested by the Polk County Sheriff's Office.

By RICK ROUSOSTHE LEDGER

MULBERRY | A man accused of secretly videotaping teenage girls with a tiny camera in the bathroom of his home has been arrested by the Polk County Sheriff's Office.Dewey Norris, 51, of 4787 Fox Creek Drive West in Mulberry, was arrested by detectives late Wednesday and booked into the Polk County Jail Thursday morning, the Sheriff's Office said.Norris, who works as an air conditioning repairman for the Hillsborough County School Board, was charged with 53 counts of video voyeurism. He also was charged with one count of destroying evidence.Norris is being held without bond.His victims were ages 14, 15, 16 and 19, sheriff's spokeswoman Carrie Eleazer said.An arrest report and Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd did not provide details of the relationships or connections between Norris and the teens.Norris placed a pen camera, which looks like an ink pen, in his bathroom to record the "four female victims he had access to while they undressed," Eleazer said.Judd said Norris aimed the camera at a mirror before the victims entered the bathroom and immediately retrieved the camera after they left the bathroom."He admitted this was to satisfy his deviant sexual needs," Judd said.The arrest report said there were 53 separate video recordings and seven DVDs dating back to 2011 and continuing into this year.The videos were discovered by a friend of Norris who sometimes used his computer, Judd said. He said the friend took the DVDs to the sheriff's office substation in Mulberry.As an air conditioning repairman for the Hillsborough County School Board, Norris works in various schools, Judd said. He said there is no evidence that there are any victims in the schools, but the investigation is ongoing.Detectives removed five computers and two cellphones from the residence and are examining them to determine whether there are more victims, Judd said.The charge of destroying evidence against Norris came because he destroyed the camera, his arrest report said.

[ Rick Rousos can be reached at rick.rousos@theledger.com or 863-802-7509. ]

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